That's my assumption, she's lying. She's either been shooting up or screwing someone with AIDS.On the off chance she's not, women bleed 1/4 of the time. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to study it out.

HIV mutates quickly so everybody has a slightly different version. It is possible to say with some confidence "X probably got it from Y" because they have the same strain. Or "Y probably got it from X," but in this case we know Y had it first.

The mutation rate is one reason HIV is hard to control. It quickly changes to beat each new drug. Current standard treatment uses multiple drugs simultaneously. If the virus can beat one drug, the other two still knock it down. Because it's a retrovirus it can't be eliminated from the body. Drugs only keep it inactive. Most infected people need drugs for the rest of their life.

If only the Republicans hadn't taken away all their free condoms and birth control, these poor lesbians couldn't even afford condoms for their sex toys. Chalk up another casualty to heartless Mitt Romney and his war on women.

If she bothered to keep up with her meds her viral load could've stayed undetectable and the transmission that much more difficult. But no. You have here a complacent asshat who not only won't take her damn meds, but who also manages to directly expose her partner to her blood. Nice.

I guess the thing I find alarming here is why there were blood donations coming from someone having regular sexual contact with a person infected with a blood-borne illness like HIV. I find it hard to believe that such a thing passes muster...

gadian:If she bothered to keep up with her meds her viral load could've stayed undetectable and the transmission that much more difficult. But no. You have here a complacent asshat who not only won't take her damn meds, but who also manages to directly expose her partner to her blood. Nice.

A little common sense a day keeps the HIV at bay.

Many can't afford it, especially in states like Texas. In Southern states, half of all people who know their status aren't taking their meds, mostly for financial reasons. Without an official diagnosis of AIDS, she couldn't get the Ryan White assurance for HIV drugs, especially since Texas' Medicaid income and assets threshold is so frighteningly low. This is one of the reasons the state's refusal to take the Medicaid expansion is so evil - people aren't getting the treatment they need and are spreading their diseases to others, all for literally no reason other than hatred for the n-bong in the White House. It's sickening, and it's disgusting.

Maybe the person in this case could afford it and did qualify and was just irresponsible - she wasn't exactly making good choices - but there are many with her status who can't afford life-saving care that also protects others.

GDubDub:TFA: At times, the contact was "rough to the point of inducing bleeding in either woman," according to the CDC. The women said some of the unprotected sexual contact occurred during menstruation.